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Xtol over diluted

lifthard1

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I was mixing up some xtol and got interupted and ended up adding 500ml more than what was called for so in the end I had 5 liters plus 500ml. So how would I compensated for the over dilutions when developing.
TY
 

ath

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Start using it 1+1 and mix 550ml stock plus 450ml water per liter working solution.
Or just ignore it, the error will probably vanish in the rest of the developing tolerances.
 
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The advice above about using it diluted 1+1, mixing 5.5 parts stock to 4.5 parts water sounds good to me. Over stock Xtol you'll see increased sharpness, and slightly higher film speed as a result.
Kodak has great published starting times for Xtol 1+1 in their data sheet.